MATLAB Octave Concepts

Internal

• MATLAB/Octave

Boolean Representation

"true" is represented as '1'.

"false" is represented as '0'.

Data Types

Numeric:

String:

a = 'some string'

Variables

Variables: local and global.

Other subjects:

• Variable assignment
• Displaying variables

Display

By default, the runtime displays 5 significant digits in human readable format (format short for scalars and format loose for matrices).